Tuesday, October 14, 2008

House - Recap & Review - Birthmarks

House“Birthmarks”

Original Airdate: Oct 14, 2008

Shannon – TwoCents Staff WriterShannon@thetwocentscorp.com

This week, House’s dad died and his mom wants him to give a eulogy at the funeral. House is not on board with this idea. A Chinese girl goes to China to meet her birth parents who say they have no daughter. The girl makes a wish on a Buddha and then collapses on the floor puking blood. So, you know, a typical House episode.

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This week, House’s dad died and his mom wants him to give a eulogy at the funeral. House is not on board with this idea. A Chinese girl goes to China to meet her birth parents who say they have no daughter. The girl makes a wish on a Buddha and then collapses on the floor puking blood. So, you know, a typical House episode.

So this girl (I didn’t catch her name) has her adoptive parents who are a nice Caucasian couple. They bring in all of the girl’s meds and also tell House that she used to be an alcoholic. They want House to tell her that her problems are caused by the booze. They want House to lie to a patient? What? He’d never do a thing like that!

House thinks she has the SARS and since she coughed on him, House needs a vaccine for it. Cuddy administers it in House tush. But…Cuddy, that mastermind, she gives him a tranquilizer instead and Wilson kidnaps him to take him to the funeral. Oh Cuddy, you minx!

Short aside: House’s ringtone for the team is Mmmbop. Awesome. His ringtone for Wilson? Dancing Queen by Abba.

As House and Wilson are driving House mentions that he doesn’t think his dad is his biological dad. Apparently, he figured this out when he was 12 because his feet look different from his dad’s and he also has a birthmark on his head that looks suspiciously like one a friend of the family has on his head.

House, not liking the fact that he was kidnapped does nasty things to Wilson to stop them from going, one of which he does when Wilson is driving behind a cop. House jams on the accelerator with his cane so Wilson will get pulled over. We find out that Wilson is wanted in Louisiana. Apparently, House was supposed to take care of the warrant years ago, but that must not have been the case. See, Wilson was drunk at a medical convention in Louisiana and tried to kick a piano player’s butt for playing the same Billy Joel song over and over. House wasn’t the piano player, but the one who bailed Wilson out of jail. That was where they first met. Aww!

While House is out Foreman, Chase and Cameron give differentials. Man, this is just like old times. They think the girl has gallstones, but her kidneys are failing. She’s also detoxing. They need to medically paralyze her to find out what’s wrong with her.

House’s mom wants him to give a eulogy at the funeral. He starts off cutting his dad down, but sees his mother’s face and decides to be just a little kinder. Oh…and then House pretends to cry, so he kisses his dad and takes a cutting so he can do a paternity test.

Wilson and House have a knock down drag out. House accuses Wilson of being afraid of losing people. Wilson throws a bottle of bourbon (in a funeral home?) through a stained glass window.

House and Wilson end up at a diner. They bond over a differential. Wilson likes hanging out with House again. Just like old times. During the differential, they determine that the girl’s birth parents probably tried to kill her when she was a baby because baby girls were not acceptable in China at the time of her birth. They are just unsure how the parents tried to do that.

An x-ray shows that the loving birth parents put PINS IN HER BRAIN when she was a baby. They pushed them right through her soft spot. Who the hell does that? Seriously. Wouldn’t suffocation or drowning have been a more humane way to go about it? Really? PINS?!

Her adoptive parents don’t want the doctors to tell her that there were PINS IN HER BRAIN. They don’t want her to know that her birth parents didn’t want her. She’s “fragile”, they say. That right there is b.s. The girl is 25 years old. I don’t think the doctors have to listen to her parents at this point. She needs to know there were PINS IN HER BRAIN. Oh my God.

So House did the paternity test and his dead father isn’t his real dad after all.

Wilson is back! He missed House after all. Cuddy never filled his position and Wilson decided that he had the best time with House that day and he really does miss him. And then my Tivo cut off the rest of the show! No!

Do you think Wilson and House’s relationship will go back to the way it was before? Will House appreciate Wilson more this time around? Would you ever shove pins in the brain of your infant? Sorry, I just can’t let that go. Talk back in the comments. I’m waiting on pins and needles. I’m sitting on my head, obviously.

hhahaha...love your reaction to the pins thing...I had the exact same reaction, except I couldnt believe I hread it right, so being the geek I am I searched it on the net & here I am....just a small correction, I think the reason for wanting to kill her wasnt bcoz she was a girl; it was bcoz of the '1 child only policy implemented in China in 1977'...

>They pushed them right through her soft spot. Who the hell does that? Seriously. Wouldn’t suffocation or drowning have been a more humane way to go about it? Really? PINS?!

I'm not sure if you're aware of this or not, but there was a real-life incident discovered not that long ago. It appeared in multiple news outlets, but here is one from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6983435.stm

"Doctors in China have discovered 26 sewing needles embedded in the body of a 31-year-old woman."

They think her grandparents did it when she was a baby, in an attempt to kill her, because she was female. Female infanticide in China, from even before the 'One Child Policy', has been disturbingly common through the years. Sadly, there's much literature on the topic.

Anonymous - Frankly, after the day I've had (someone sent me pictures of aborted fetuses in an email today because they don't share my political views - I also happen to be 16 weeks pregnant, so it was that much more disturbing) I'd rather not know about someone jamming 26 sewing needles into a baby's head.

Kathryn - You're another House groupie! Keep coming back for the recaps. I hope you like them and comment often!